Note from Cheri: Here are simple decorating ideas for Halloween. If you have any tips or ideas you'd like to share with your feloow Fabulous Foodies, please email them to me and I'll be happy to add them to the archives. Be sure to also check out the following features: How to Make Realistic Tombstone Props Making Ghastly Guests (like the one at right) Dried Apple Shrunken Heads Jack O' Lantern Carving 101 Jack O' Lantern Carving Tips Free Jack O' Lantern Patterns

• Go to the dime store and buy a bag or two of plastic bugs, scatter them around the food on your buffet table.
• Giant plastic rats, available at dime stores, look great perched next to dishes on the snack tables.
• Remember how scary Stphen King's The Shining was? Here's an effect borrowed from the movie that's easy to create in a bathroom, if you happen to have a tile wall opposite the bathroom sink mirror (or some other non-staining, easily cleanable surface). Simply take a cheap red lipstick and scrawl the word REDRUM on the wall. When someone looks up while washing their hands, they will, of course, see the word MURDER.
• To make a spooky zombie for the yard, stuff some old clothes with leaves and use one of our Ghastly Guests for the head.
• If you don't want anyone to go upstairs during your party, scatter the stairs with carved Jack O' Lanterns for an eerie display. You could carve small pumpkins with a single letter on each that, when put together, spell "Keep Out."
• For a great outdoor display that gives the effect of glowing faces floating in the dark, hang Jack O' Lanterns at various lengths from plant hangers.

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